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They wanted to vote and to have the same rights as men did. In addition to being denied the right to vote, there were other laws that discriminated against women-- for example, if a woman owned property and she married, the property became her husband's, and he could do with it as he pleased. Under the common law, married women were regarded as under their husband's command, which meant he could make any decision he wanted and she could not do much about it: she was supposed to "obey" him.
Many women, especially those with abusive or alcoholic husbands, wanted to have such laws changed. Also, single women were generally considered under the command of their father, and if he did not want her to go to college or if he wanted to marry her off to someone she did not love, she had no protection the way the law was written. So, women wanted the right to have a say in their own life, to control their own destiny in some ways and make decisions about their own future.
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